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73-Year-Old Woman Rescued From DC Metro Tracks

Two subway trains on the greater Washington, DC, "Metro" system are seen November 26, 2008. The FBI has warned US officials of a possible Al-Qaeda plot against New York's subway and transport grid, putting the city's police on heightened alert Wednesday. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Metro spokesman Dan Stessel says the woman fell on the tracks about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Dupont Circle station. The spokesman told The Washington Post that it is not clear how the woman fell onto the tracks, but she was helped by fellow riders. Metro says the unidentified woman was taken to George Washington University Hospital with a non-life threatening head injury.

Stessel says a train was not in the immediate area when the woman fell and Red Line service was not affected.